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Boat Avail Saxon Reach New Quay Lane Melton Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 1BJ

DC/26/0901/CLPLawful Development Certificate(Proposed)Awaiting decision
Outline / PiP
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawful use (Proposed) - This application relates to the continuation of that established lawful use. The proposal is for the siting of a replacement residential houseboat occupying the same lawful mooring location historically used for that purpose. No alterations are proposed to the existing mooring, jetty, slipway or pontoon structures, and no operational development is proposed.

Received
6 March 2026
Decision due
6 May 2026
Ward
Melton
  1. Received6 Mar
  2. Validated11 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 May
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is an outline application at Boat Avail Saxon Reach New Quay Lane Melton Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 1BJ. East Suffolk has handled 942 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 6 March 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Melton. We hold 803 applications in total for the IP12 postcode area.

87% of outline applications at East Suffolk Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
IP12 1BJ
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate(Proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Melton

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Suffolk Coast & Heaths
  • SSSI: Deben Estuary SSSINext to the site · +1 more
  • Special Protection Area: Deben EstuaryNext to the site
  • Ramsar wetland: Deben EstuaryNext to the site

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, Special Areas of Conservation, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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